


Lesso rifatto all'inglese

by tzigane, Zaganthi (Caffiends)



Series: Collations [4]
Category: Hannibal (TV), Hannibal Lecter Series - All Media Types, Hannibal Lecter Tetralogy - Thomas Harris
Genre: Cages, Emotional Manipulation, Puppy Play, Subspace
Language: English
Status: Completed
Published: 2014-12-07
Updated: 2014-12-07
Packaged: 2018-02-28 11:08:30
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Chapters: 1
Words: 5,315
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Story URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2730179
Author URL: https://archiveofourown.org/users/tzigane/pseuds/tzigane, https://archiveofourown.org/users/Caffiends/pseuds/Zaganthi
Summary: <blockquote class="userstuff">
              <p>The way Hannibal's hand reached down and curled around his neck was a relief. It was affectionate and the thumb rubbing behind his ear made him want to curl up more tightly in the basket, close his eyes and stay. "I have a patient in fifteen minutes."</p>
            </blockquote>





	Lesso rifatto all'inglese

The room was the perfect temperature. The floor was clean and comfortable, and there was a wicker basket beside Hannibal's desk that was lined with soft fleece and bits of dog hair because Winston seemed inclined to abandon him and become a therapy dog.

There were worse things. Much worse things, and Hannibal was smiling at him, settling into his chair. "I am glad that you agreed to come home with me."

He shifted, stretching one leg. The leg of his boxers rode up occasionally, but it kept things from getting weird when the dogs wanted to sleep on him.   It was funny that he thought that was the weird part, but he was relaxed and muzzed down. Hannibal had told him he could call Jack and check in when his next patient came. "Me, too."

The way Hannibal's hand reached down and curled around his neck was a relief. It was affectionate and the thumb rubbing behind his ear made him want to curl up more tightly in the basket, close his eyes and stay. "I have a patient in fifteen minutes."

"Mmmm." Which meant it was time to leave, even if they did linger in the waiting room. Hannibal needed space to get ready for work in his head, and Will understood head-spaces and distance and being alone as a tool to sharpen. What he was doing just then was weak, what he was letting happen was weak, but it felt so fucking good that he didn't want to give Hannibal the space. "Okay. I'm moving."

There was something in the way Hannibal paused, tilted his head to the side. "Perhaps... that is not entirely necessary."

It made Will wonder about the patient. He lifted his head, pressed against petting fingers. "Yeah?"

"Mmm." Yes, and the petting continued for a long moment before any further answer came. "I thought perhaps we could try something else. If you would like to stay."

"I want to stay." He stretched fingers of one hand, idle. He needed to call Jack, but that could wait. Jack could wait, and the touch of broad hand against the back of his head was lulling. There was nothing in his head except his house and wide empty fields, and it was peaceful. He knew that things were... off. Knew that he should be a great deal more worried about himself, about his job, about the world around him. Will couldn't seem to pull together the ability to care. Not at all.

When Hannibal took away his hand, Will couldn't help the little sound he gave.

"Shhh." Quiet shush. "Get your basket, dear, and slip it into the knee space." He reached out and opened the side drawer, scooting back his chair simultaneously so as to leave the space free for Will to obey.

He shifted, moved to his knees and hands, and pushed it into the space beneath the wide smooth desk. Then he moved to get back into it, and looked up for approval, checking that he'd read the instruction right. It was much darker under the desk, insulated and quiet. When he looked up at Hannibal, he was unsurprised to find that there were earbuds in the palm of his hand..

"For my patient's privacy, you understand."

There would be music on the end of them, a tiny ipod with no screen and only controls, already playing. Will accepted the earbuds, and tucked them carefully into his ears, shifting to push a shoulder against soft fleece and curl up into himself again.

It was weird. It was all deeply strange, and he could acknowledge that. It was a fact, it was reality, and he was.. he was fine with that. Truly, he was. It was... a comfort, and not any stranger than the fact that Hannibal liked to watch him get off while still fully dressed.

Will settled in until he was comfortable, and then Hannibal pushed his desk chair in and stood up, leaving him quietly blocked in and with nothing to do but close his eyes, and enjoy the violin concerto.

The thing of it was that Jack... Well. Jack had been pushing him, had kept on pushing him, shove after shove after shove until all Will could do was break. Shatter, and it was no wonder he ended up exactly where he was.

At least Hannibal didn't push. He... suggested, a concept that Will tasted in his teeth and felt in his mouth, heady things that he could concentrate on. He pressed his nose in against his hands, knees drawn up carefully,and simply let himself drift until it was time not to drift anymore. That was signified by a pushing back of the chair, and the settling of Hannibal into it. There was no telling how much time had passed, or what had gone on in the mean time. He had lost track of the music at some point because now it was some strange mixture of beats and piano that actually wasn't all that bad truth be told.

He wondered if Hannibal was done for the day, or if Hannibal was with his patient just then. It was easier to stay still, to be present a little.

The knee space was quite large, and it wasn't entirely uncomfortable to be curled up there. Hannibal didn't give him any sign that he should get up, didn't do anything more than settle against the basket. It was a relief, and he drifted for a little while further before he felt Hannibal move to stand on his way to escort a patient out, so Will held carefully still, leaving his earbuds in place. It was... the same non-activity he would have had in the institution, only slightly more luxurious. The food was obviously better, soft and warm and easy.

The basket was a little weird, but he could adjust to almost anything so long as he wasn't... wasn't _looking_.

The tug of fingers pulling his earbuds out of one ear got his attention, made him shift and look up again, nearly face to face with Hannibal. "Mmm?"

"I believe that we have company. I thought that perhaps you would like to put on a shirt before Jack comes inside."

He uncurled slowly, crawling forward carefully, receiving a petting stroke as he managed to get to his feet. "Okay, yeah." He stretched, reaching to the ceiling for a moment to stretch his back out. The sight of it seemed to bring out something in Hannibal because his hand reached out, fingers stroking down Will's spine in a caress that made him shiver.

"Hmn, hmn, not sure I want to go put a shirt on now." But he stepped forward slowly, taking the door that let him into the house. Winston knocked into his knees happily, and he mostly hoped Jack had stuck to the patient side of the house. Shockingly enough, he made it up the stairs to the bedroom, his bedroom. Weird, he supposed, that he had a bedroom, that Hannibal had a bedroom. They didn't sleep together, and maybe that was the only saving grace, the only thing that would keep him straight-faced in front of Jack.

He imagined that finding people up to his sort of pleasures was hard for Hannibal. People saw a man like him, handsome, tall, fit, refined, and immediately assumed things about the sex life attached to that body, things that were wrong to assume. And taking out an ad in the personals wasn't entirely seemly. 'Seeking partner for masturbatory fun, and napping  under my desk in a dog bed. I am also a never nude.'   If only because the mental image of Hannibal showering in denim cutoffs was... Hysterical and misplaced.

It was that old joke, the one about no one sane being interested in psychiatrists. The fact that Hannibal saw one himself...  Wasn't actually surprising to Will, he decided, getting nudged in the ankle by Charlie as the pile of dogs on his bed  unfolded. It was time for walks and playing, and he could distract Jack with that.  

Will shrugged jeans on, grabbed a button down and a sweater from the chest of drawers and fished a tennis ball from the  dog's duffle of toys before slouching down the stairs with them following him. "C'mon, who wants to go outside to the yard that will never recover?"

A plethora of wagging tails always made him feel better, and Winston barked twice in acknowledgement. It set off Doughnut and Mirabelle, and Will found nothing objectionable in that at all. It never bothered Hannibal, either, although he could only imagine that it would drive Jack around the bend.

He padded barefoot back down the stairs, soft and heavy dog feet following him as he wove from the house to the patient side of the building, unlocking doors as he went, locking them behind him. Jack was standing in the waiting room, looking severe, contemplative. Looking Jack. Will clutched loosely at the tennis ball in his hand. "Hey. You wanted to talk?"

He was wearing an overcoat, a hat, and he was looking at Will with careful consideration. "I wanted to check on you. You left the hospital sooner than I thought."

"After a couple of days of observation, they were comfortable letting me go home with someone." He wanted to, but didn't, bounce the tennis ball on the floor. "Cmon, I was just going to go exercise the dogs. Let me get my shoes and coat."

"Fine." Fine, but he knew Jack didn't believe that. Knew it for gospel, because he could see it, could see all the things Jack was thinking, all the things he wanted to say, and ugh. Maybe he needed not to do this, but it had to be done. "I'll, ah. Wait. By the door."

The better not to be exposed to Hannibal, Will supposed.

He cocked an eyebrow at Jack. "Porch is this way. Just follow me." He opened up the door to the house again, and his little happy furry entourage moved with fresh excitement, getting ahead of him to the back door. "He's in his office, if that was what you were wondering."

"I would have asked if I had wondered," Jack assured him. "I was already pretty sure he would be there. We haven't had anything good to say to one another since all of this started." This being.. he had no idea what.

"I think it's bizarre, Jack. It's... My personal life. You don't need to be bothered by him." He held the door, and locked it behind Jack, padding comfortably through the kitchen. His shoes were situated beside the door, and his down coat hung on a hook, easy to shrug into and pull on a hat.

The air outside was brisk but comfortable, and it made Will settle comfortably into his coat before he tossed the ball and watched all of the dogs take off after it before Jack spoke again. "I sent him to do a job in his professional capacity. This. This wasn't what I sent him to do."

"You sent him to find me in a bar, Jack. I hit on him. We went to a hotel, and honestly didn't discuss much of psychiatry except as it interested us personally." He crouched, scrubbing fingers through Rudy's soft curly hair as she gave a confused sort of wander.

Not all of his dogs were the sharpest tacks in the box. He loved all of them anyway.

"Will, I just don't understand. You've never been... this has never been your kind of thing before now. I mean, I know you were dating that girl before, uh..." Like Jack didn't remember her name. He knew how long it had been since they stopped dating, too.

"Six years ago. You've never known me to date anyone, Jack. And before Sarah, back when I was a detective in New Orleans, there was Rich. I'm bi." He shrugged his shoulders. "And yeah, dating women is... Easier. Socially. In law enforcement."

Jack snorted. "In pretty much any profession. Christ, Will, that's not the problem I'm having with this."

"Then what is? I've never seen him professionally." He shifted, sat down in the steps to wrestle the ball from Winston's mouth.

He wasn't surprised by the way Jack reached up and pressed his fingers to the bridge of his nose. "Fuck. Look. My problem is that if he had done as asked, you might not have ended up in Bethesda. You wouldn't have been..." Words momentarily failed him. "Shacked up with him doing whatever the fuck it is you're doing."

"That's a pretty wide assumption about Hannibal's abilities. And I'm pretty sure I'd still have had a mental break. I've been a lot more stable, calmer. It helps to have a personal life to retreat to at the end of the day. I'm eating and sleeping again." He threw the ball out again, and five of seven dogs went running for it while the other two found someplace to foul.

Hannibal's yard wouldn't ever be the same again.

"It's not an assumption. He's done some pretty amazing things so far as his profession is concerned. I wouldn't send just anyone to check you out, Will." Jack was scowling, but there was nothing unusual about that.

Will ran a hand back through his hair. "I could start seeing Alana professionally. If she's willing to. She said she was going to think about it." Which implied a referral, which...was something Jack could be pleased about. "I'm content, Jack."

"I can't believe this." Of course he couldn't, and whatever else he said, Will was going to ignore. It was easier to watch the dogs and let the words flow over him in a steady flow of blah blah blah.

It was getting frustrating, and Will whipped the ball again. Winston was in the lead, loping along, kind enough to let other dogs get it in the end. Sleek and calculating. "Christ, we're not even sleeping together. You just need to fucking let it go."

Jack's cookies were clearly burned by things Will wasn't even going to consider. "Yeah? So how's this going? Are you feeling any better, or should I have made damn sure you couldn't leave Bethesda?"

"I actually am feeling a lot better. Calmer, more together. I have a stable, comfortable environment to work through my problems." He gave Jack a sideways look as his dogs came back, one of them slyly offering, but not, the ball back. "Why do you seem convinced I should have stayed there?"

"Call it a feeling." Grumpy bastard. "So you're going to be here for a while. How long until you think you can come back?"

"Alana's going to get back to me Friday and I will either be seeing her, or she'll give me a referral to a psychiatrist who is probably less forgiving of my dogs and won't let me occupy his guest room." He said it as calmly, and maybe he was digging the knife in a little. "And then... Whenever I'm cleared."

Yeah, it wasn't going to make Jack any less grumpy but then, not much would. "We've got a lot going on Will. I need you. Nobody else can do what you do, not even half as well."

The clearing of Hannibal's throat made Will jump and look behind them. "Ah. It seems to be getting a bit cooler. Perhaps coffee? If you think the dogs will survive for a bit without you."

"Thanks. You want coffee, Jack?" He stood up slowly, stretching again before he whistled softly to get the dogs back in from wreaking havoc. They only seemed to do it outside; inside, they were being well behaved little angels. Mirabelle still got a little too excited when someone petted her belly, but there was no helping that.

"No." It seemed to be something of a split-second decision, but that was fine. More than fine, in fact, because he didn't really want to have coffee with Jack. He wished Jack hadn't bothered to come by at all. "I've got business to get on with."

As if neither of them did.

"All right. I'll let you know later this week what I'm going to do about a psychiatrist." He got the dogs to come in closer, and herded them through the door. "Thanks for coming by, Jack."

It at least got things over with, and Will was grateful for that much. "Let me show you to the door," Hannibal offered, shifting as though to show Jack the way through the house.

"I know the way." Even if he was grim and angry, and Will couldn't do anything about that.

He was going to have to let it go, because he couldn't fix Jack. He'd be back at work soon, and Jack would calm down. Will stopped to toe off his shoes and get his coat back on, wandered in to the kitchen, moved to get mugs down as Jack left.

The fact that Hannibal followed him out, well. That just meant that he wanted his privacy, and that he was guarding Will's as well.

The coffee was beginning to smell delicious by the time Hannibal returned and began putting creamer in the cups. "I doubt Jack is going to change his mind about any of this anytime soon."

"I've stopped caring." Will shifted, started to unbutton his shirt again. "And I'll be back to work eventually."

Hannibal hummed quietly. "Do you think that he will be capable of working with you without making things difficult?"

"He'll be fine, once I have another psychiatrist. If you have any recommendations…" He started to fold the shirt casually, shifting out of his jeans.

"To be honest? No." There was that, at least. "But then, mine has long since ceased to practice. Except for me, of course. And she would disallow that if I would allow it to happen."

"You're like a force of nature." Will settled onto the stool at the island, back in his boxers again.

That was compliment enough to earn him one hell of a smile, and then Hannibal lifted his cup to his lips and sipped. It was as close as Will came to being allowed to work in the kitchen, because apparently Hannibal thought that it was one of those things required to keep a bit of mystery in a relationship. That was funny, because it was usually other things, somebody who wouldn't pee while the other person was in the shower or didn't want to be caught shaving or a host of other things. "Delicious, Will. Much like you."

Hannibal didn't share the kitchen, and he didn't undress, which... were interesting. Sometime, he was going to get Hannibal naked, just to admire him. When he felt less strained by the world. "I'm glad it's up to your standard."

"And my standards are very high." Mmm, well. Will would like to think that was so, but nobody had ever accused him of being fit to consider as worthy of a high standard. His mother, maybe, but his mother had always been a special case. She was brave and amazing. She had walked out on his father when he was barely six, walked miles in the dark of night and the silence of her world with him in her arms until she made it to a house where someone was awake. He had called his uncle from that house, and they had waited on the porch until he came to get them, and she had always insisted that no one could be more exceptional than he was.

He wasn't sure what she'd say just then, and it was better to not find out. He took a sip of his coffee, nursing it slowly. "Are you done with patients for the day?"

Hannibal hummed, giving a smile. "Yes. You are my focus for the rest of the evening."

Will gave an answering smile, hands curled comfortably around the mug. "I think I can handle that." He was in a mood for it, after that nice lulling nap.

It was something of a surprise when he felt fingers on his jaw, tilting it upwards just a bit. Hannibal leaned in then, and oh. Kissing. He didn't get enough of kissing. Not ever, and the slip of tongue made him shudder with it.

He leaned up into it, let his eyes close as he opened up beneath Hannibal, tasting coffee and heat that made him groan. Tongue on his teeth, and then teeth against his tongue when he tried to return the gesture. "No, dear Will. No, no, no." No, because tHannibal wanted to have all of the control, and Will.. Will was going to let him have it. "Drink the rest of your coffee."

"I just want to reciprocate a little." He took another sip, did what he was supposed to because he wanted to maintain that safe environment, that position of not having to be responsible for anything.

"And I want you simply to enjoy yourself, dear." That smile made him a little crazy. In a good way. "Why don't you strip off your shorts and climb onto the top of the island, Will?"

Cold marble countertop against his ass, and it was cold outside. He shifted, slipped off the stool and took his time hooking his boxers down with one thumb before climbing up to sit on the edge of the island. It earned him a smile, slow and satisfied, a sly expression that was so... so attractive.

A stack of hand towels were pulled out of a drawer, and Hannibal slid them to one end, pushing Will gently to lie down and stretch out, the countertop making him shiver. "You are so lovely just this way."

He shrugged his shoulders, pressed them flat against the surface as he let his gaze slide up to the ceiling. Hannibal walked away from him, then, and time went... just a bit wobbly, off and strange for a few seconds, and maybe he was glad for that. Maybe. Then Hannibal was back, and there were hands on him, stroking, cold, too, damp with something.

Something, and it wasn't pungent, it didn't smell sharply, but he could recognize it. Just.

"Huh." The smell lingered to the roof of his mouth. "Bittersweet chocolate?" Closer to coffee than the taste of hershey's, but sticky fingers none the less.

"I thought that it would prove a fine accent to the taste of your skin." Mmm, that was a nice thought, and then there was a tongue lapping over the arch of his right hip-bone, and he couldn't help the deep, shaky breath that he drew in as a reaction. "And I was right."

"That feels amazing." He stretched, squirming slowly, trying to arch up for more contact, touch, than the slide of tongue over his skin. It got him a slow, steady rub of thumb against the crease of his thigh, leading in towards his balls, and oh. Oh god.

The warmth of that laughter made him feel so good, added to the intensity of what he was feeling. "You are beautiful when I have you like this. A creature made of pleasure, Will."

He didn't fight it, just closed his eyes against the ceiling, stretched out and fell into it. He stretched again, arching and trying to get more contact, the vibration of laughter against his skin.  
 "Hmm. Delightful, Will. Keep... enjoying." Lapping tongue against his skin, so sensitive he could hardly bear it, and just increasing with every second. The thumb kept stroking, in and down, and god. Fuck, that was... oh. Oh, that, had he put chocolate there?

He pulled up a leg, edge of a heel barely against the side of the island, trying to hook over Hannibal's shoulder to draw him in. Just, closer, just enough, because he could feel the texture of it against his skin, stickier down there than smeared against his hip.

Another hum, and there were lips down, oh, at the root of his cock, and was, he had no idea where the chocolate was anymore. Just had the feel and the taste, not, no, the smell. The smell of chocolate, dark and spiced, and oh. Oh fuck, that was, there was, he had the thumb sliding between the cheeks of his ass, stroking over the hole there.

He could taste it without having to, felt his dick bob for more contact than the skirting sensation he felt, the faint press of teeth and then Hannibal humming to himself as he felt the thumb push in.

God. That. That was... Will couldn't keep himself from moaning, arching into it, tilting his pelvis to try and get more more more because Hannibal was a fucking tease. He was just.. it wasn't enough, wasn't even close to enough, and more than anything, he wanted _more_. Wanted Hannibal to climb onto the island, blanket him with his body and come inside of him, fuck him into a blissful orgasm that would overwhelm him with the pleasure of it, enough that he would lose time and reality for a while.

It wasn't going to happen. He knew it wasn't going to happen, but he squirmed and started begging, pleading.   "Fuck me, please. Please, I just want..." More, he always wanted more and he never got it.

"I know." Yes, he knew, but he wasn't going to do anything about it, because that wasn't how this worked. It.. it wasn't, and there was another finger, and he didn't know what the slick was, but whatever it was, it was good. It was enough to make him moan, and Hannibal's mouth moved, and there was a tongue licking up the bottom side of his cock, and oh god.

"Oh, Christ, Christ..." He scrabbled for a moment, flailing one arm desperately before settling on biting at the back of his hand because there was nothing to hold onto. Nothing except himself and Hannibal, and oh. Fucking fucking fuck, that was good, that was, he just wanted so much more. "Please, please more..." Begging, he'd beg, he wanted more, he wanted more than Hannibal would give him but he wasn't above begging.

"Hush, Will." Hush, but he didn't want to hush. He wanted, he just. He wanted to be _fucked_ , he wanted to be taken, and god. He was falling apart just thinking about it and he couldn't do anything at all. It was driving him insane, but the begging at least got him another finger, and ngh. Fuck.

All he could do was to try to drive his hips up for it, leg bent for purchase that was tenuous at best, until Hannibal took it away from him. Shifted just so, and he huffed laughter when Will protested, because he enjoyed it. Because he was a complete bastard, and he wanted to thread his hands into his hair and pull as though that could somehow help him get what he wanted.

"You are beautiful, dear Will. Just like this. Exactly... exactly what I have wanted for so long..."

Someone who liked everything Hannibal did to him. He made a frustrated noise, and did reach down, trying to pet at Hannibal's hair and shoulders. "Tell me what you want, Will. Tell me." Bastard, bastard, bastard, making him form coherent thought, and he wouldn't give it to him. Will was sure of that already.

"Please fuck me. I want, I, I want you to overwhelm me. Please, *please*..." He tugged at the fabric of Hannibal's shirt. Please, and those fingers moved out of him, and god. God, he was, it was going to be, Hannibal was going to... to move away, and he yelled, furious and frustrated and maybe a little crazy with it until Hannibal came up onto the island with him and yes. Yes, yes, yes, please, yes, and maybe he was babbling with it.

Begging, reaching for him, for his shoulders,to hold on, to touch back for just once, to try to touch skin, and he spread his legs out, hoping. Hoping, wanting, and Hannibal was spreading more slick across his skin, rubbing it more deeply into his ass, and it was so so much of what he wanted. Yes, except no. No, no, he was pulling away, and it made Will want to cry, made his breath hitch, and God.

The position was all wrong for what came next, but it was still a relief when Hannibal leaned over him again, and the slow press of dick up his ass, except it wasn't quite right. He exhaled frustration and anger and need, hung on harder to Hannibal, pulling at him.

"Open your eyes and look at me." Look at him, and he, he couldn't, he was, it was too much, heavy, thick, and it made his eyes want to close and his mouth opened on a moan, one that was swiftly covered by the press of Hannibal's, taking in his breath and his sounds and fuck. Muffling him, pushing him down while he pushed into him, except it wasn't him, it was something else, too thick, too unforgiving, and he whined against Hannibal's hand, trying to bite. Trying, and failing, and there was a delicious struggle, and laughter, laughter that made him want to yell, but fuck. That was, it was too much, and there was no give, there was, it just kept coming and then when Hannibal pulled it out it was a relief and he just. Wanted more. Wanted it back, wanted to cry, but Hannibal's arm rubbed against his cock.

Fuck, he whined and moaned and wanted it, wanted it and didn't want it, and the longer Hannibal pumped him with it, reamed him out, the less he fought. The more he couldn't stop moaning, canting his hips, shifting to it and he dropped his head back on the stack of towels and reached for his cock because he had to touch himself, had to come, and he was so desperate.

He was always desperate with Hannibal, desperate for him to give him something, relief, a rest, peace, and the feel of a hand on his wrist made him whine hard. "No, no, I just want to come, I, please."

"Then stroke yourself off for me." The accent was thicker than usual, desperate, even, and it was permission given, and yes.

So close, too close to having what he wanted, but he set the pace slower with that order, grasped himself hard at the base and tried to move with more grace than sheer desperation. Tried to make a show of it, tried to make himself _perfect_ because if he couldn't get fucked then he could at least give Hannibal a show that would help to prod him along the road to giving him what he wanted.

He squeezed tight around the dildo, felt the lack of give it had, and  thrust up into his hand harder, fucked himself onto it and into his fingers for Hannibal's viewing pleasure.

"You are so... exquisite." Praise, faint or otherwise, and he gasped desperately for breath in reaction to that because Hannibal might not be fucking him but he could feel it. Could feel the erection against his thigh and that was enough to drive him right over the edge.

He hit the edge of orgasm, tried to rub up against Hannibal at the same time, tried to get more than he was being given, greedy for it, smearing drying chocolate along the length of his dick and scenting the air with it as friction melted it all over again, stickier again at his hand than the heavy musk of semen. He was a wreck of nerve-endings and sweat and cum, and Hannibal was licking the edge of his jaw.

Will couldn't remember the last time anything had been this perfect.


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